The consumer and SOHO networking specialist reaches farther into the enterprise with three new switches.

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D-Link, best known as a maker of networking gear for the consumer and small office/home office (SOHO) sectors, is looking up-market.

At the Interop 2005 trade show in Las Vegas today, the company announced it will launch three new switches for enterprise customers later this year.

The products -- a 48-port offering and two 24-port models -- will be sold through resellers and distributors for between $2,999.99 and $4,299.99. The price includes free technical support and firmware updates.

"The D-Link xStack 3200 series of switches are robust, enterprise-level advanced business solutions that drive powerful infrastructure connectivity for businesses from the SMB all the way up to the enterprise," Steven Joe, D-Link's president and CEO, said in a statement.

The switches incorporate built-in Access Control Lists (ACLs) to find and filter Denial of Service attacks, Trojans and worms.

D-Link, which is based in Fountain Valley, Calif., also said the switches are designed to help IT managers deal with networks that meld voice, video, data and storage, making it easier to roll out new applications.

Pushing further into the enterprise switch market will put D-Link into even greater competition with industry heavyweights, such as Cisco Systems (Quote, Chart) and Nortel Networks.

D-Link was founded in 1986 and has struck a number of deals to increase distribution of its products, including last year's pact with AOL. The company is publicly traded on the Taiwan stock exchange.

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